An extremely busy term is now behind us. The holi-day period was very much needed by both students and staff. I hope that this festive season provided just that, an opportunity for parents, students and staff to spend some quality time with family and friends.

I hope that our students have returned to us re-freshed, energized and ready to engage fully with school again.

I would like to extend my traditional salutation, Peace and Goodwill to all and may your home be filled with love, peace and laughter. May these bless-ings follow you throughout the New Year.

With my very best wishes.

Graeme Garrett

Headmaster

Message from the Media Coordinator

Sitting back with my mug of coffee and reading this newslet-ter, it truly makes me feel proud to be part of such a dynamic community.

Compiling this, for me, was a truly amazing experience.

“The Overview” has been creat-ed to give you a summary of all the wonderful things that your children with their teachers par-ticipated at the school and also an overview of things happening around the school.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.

In turn, I would like to wish you all the best for the New Year.

Elena Michaelides

During its history of over a century, The English School has been recognised for the excellent level of education it offers to its students. With the goal of continu-ous improvement of its infrastructures, service and processes, The English School turned to the pres-tigious, world-recognized and independent, school evaluation and inspection organization form the UK, Independent School Inspec-

torate (UK). The organiza-tion inspects schools which, like the English School, belong to the HMC (Headmaster’s Conference Group of English based Independent Schools of Excellence). During the week of the 23rd to 27th November, a twelve-member inspection team visited the school from Eng-land for a comprehensive and in-depth evaluation of the whole School. It is the first time in the past 40 years that this process has

taken place. The inspection outcome will be announced in Janu-ary and will help The Eng-lish School to successfully meet its pedagogical chal-lenges. It remains firmly committed to the principle of top quality education.

Assessed by the best in order to offer the best

Message from our Headmaster

Special points of interest:

Information about Trips: Pages 9,

10

Afternoon Games: Page 11

Afternoon & Evening Events:

Pages 12,13

Some Sport Highlights: Pages 14-

16

Other Activities: Pages 16-24

Our Institute Office: Page 25

More Information: Page 25

Upcoming Events Page: 26

Inside this issue:

Health & Safety 2

Outstanding Performance 2

Infrastructure News 2

Career & University & DofE 3

Some Assembly Highlights 4

Bonding Activities 7

Classroom Activities 8

VOLUME 1 , ISSUE 1

JANUARY 2016

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In its attempts to ensure the upgrading of the health and safety of our students, staff and visitors, the Board of Management decided to hire a Health & Safety professional in order to prepare the following reports:

1. Risk assessment – to identify all Health and Safety hazards and recommend all the necessary control and improvement measures to be taken

2. Review the School’s existing Emergency Evacuation Plan and make recommenda-

tions for improvements 3. Security threats , an investi-

gation of any potential securi-ty risk within the School will be recorded and assessed.

4. Review the policy and proce-dures related to school trips

Recommendations will be consid-ered by the Board and Manage-ment of the School, and will be implemented in due course.

Health & Safety of our students, staff & visitors

We are delighted to announce the outstanding performance of our students who were awarded for their achievement in the Pearson (EdExcel) summer 2015 Examination.

Eight of our students were awarded for the Highest Interna-tional Mark in their subject, five students were awarded for Highest Mark in Europe and seven students for Highest Mark in Cyprus.

Many congratulation to the students themselves and their teachers and parents who supported them in their brilliant attainment.

The English School Continues its Outstanding Performance

Congratulations to our Year 5 student, Eliza Omirou for her impressive rise in world tennis.

A full article of her success can be found: www.cyprusscore.com/tag/eliza-omirou/

New Newham Building

Still on track with the pro-ject.

The new building will re-place the prefab mobiles and offer students improved school facilities in a modern building.

New Car-park for our 7 Formers

The area behind the Art Room has been cleared and paved, creating a big car park area to be used by our 7 formers.

Opening the New Canteen for our 6 & 7 Formers

The new common and can-teen area was opened to our Yr6 & Yr7 formers.

Students in the photo: Top row: George Kroussaniotakis, Andreas Economou, Panayiotis Yiannikourides Bottom row: Georgia Kriticou, Simone Anna Arajian, Erica Christofi , Georgia Socratous, Anna Economou, Maria Constantinidou, Charis Eleftheriou

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”-

Helen Keller

The Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) International Award offered by the school once again!

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Humphreys in 1968. Interestingly our School is the oldest Independ-ent Award Centre in the world. In the beginning of the term a par-ents presentation of the Award was organised which was then followed by 4 similar presentations to the students. Students have already shown great enthusiasm for the return of the Award and the num-bers speak for themselves with over 300 registrations for all three levels of the Award. During this first term, 9 ORB Reg-

The School was very happy to re-establish its DofE Award Centre earlier this year, which once again allows the Award to be run by the School's staff. In doing so, the School wishes to take advantage of the its staff expertise and experience in the field and also to en-courage and promote bonding between students and staff beyond the classroom. This return to the School acknowledges the long and distinguished history of our School with the Award. The English School was the first to introduce the Duke of Edin-burgh's International Award to Cyprus following the sug-gestion of the newly appoint-ed Headmaster Mr. David H.

istration & Activities Presentation Sessions, 46 Adventurous Jour-ney Training Sessions and 5 Adven-

This year our application process once again ran smoothly, with many of our applicants already holding offers from (and not limited to) Bath, Bristol, Durham, Edinburgh, King’s College, Imperial, Queen Mary, UCL and War-wick, so our congratulations go to them, and well done on their success.

Our Cambridge applicants have now returned from their interviews, and are eagerly waiting for the University’s decision; we will keep you posted on this. Our medics are beginning to prepare for their interviews and we are keeping our fingers crossed for these applicants who have to go through what is often a very stressful process.

Looking ahead in 2016, we remind our students to login to their school email account on a regular basis. There is a great deal taking place again this year, so please ensure that you don’t miss any events and/or workshops that are relevant and useful to you.

Careers & University Entry Update

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Year 1 & 2, 29th September 2015… Welcoming Simon Richardson MBE British Cyclist 3-times Paralympic Games participant.

Some Assembly Highlights

Year 1 assembly, 14th September 2015... “Target setting”

Simon Richardson inspired our young students the way he has been inspiring athletes and all people who listen to his presentations. The gold–winning Paralympian shared his story and gave messages of determination and perseverance to our junior students who were fascinated to listen to him, look at his bikes, Olympic torch and touch his medals and helmet.

Year 2 assembly, 22nd September 2015... 'Educating Mind & Heart - Celebrating International Peace Day'

Commemoration for the OXI Day…

Year 1 assembly, 6th October 2015… “Man’s best friend…” Dog Shelter & Commendation of our Seniors for their valuable assistance at the Troodos Bonding Activities.

Car Safety, presentation by our Deputy Head Boy

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Year 1 Celebrating Founder’s Day by planting a tree in our Founder’s Honour

Some Assembly Highlights

Year 4 & 5, 10th November 2015… Sex Education

PSHE - 'Sex Education' by students of St George's University of London

On Tuesday, November 10th, students from Years 4 and 5 were given a presentation on the topic of 'Sex Education' by students of St George's University of London who attend the School of Medicine at the University of Nicosia. The English School Pastoral team greatly appreciates the voluntary work of these medical students as well as the coordination carried out by Mr George Sycallides - an English School parent. We believe that their work has contributed very effectively to promotion of the personal, social, health and emotional development of our students.

Ms A. Papadopoulou & Mr. A Stylianou of the Special Adv. Children committee presenting to our Yr. 2 group

Year 5, 27th November 2015... Ms. Kyriakou (Vice President of the Freedom Dolls Initiative) presented on Issues of Human Trafficking

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Year 5, 4th December 2015... Options Choice Presentation

Some Assembly Highlights

Year 1, 2nd December 2015... Presenting their work. Topics explored: Respect, Care, Friendship and Bullying.

Ms Anastasia Papadopoulou Special Adv. to Children Committee attended the event, in the Hall and addressed Year 1 at the end of their presentations. She congratulated the chil-dren and their teachers for all the thoughts, care, effort and time they put into the presen-tations.

Year 4, 9th December 2015… We Care, We Help Club—information on Volunteerism

Year 1 & 3, 22nd December 2005… Mr. V. Tavitian, presenting Vikexploratorium Science and Technology show

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Just before the school started our Year 1 and Year 2 students went to Troodos to Jubilee Camp. They took part in many dif-ferent activities aimed to build new friendships and develop some old ones.

These activities develop students’ self-confidence and self-esteem.

Bonding Activities

Years and later on in their adult lives. Already Year 1 have had an educational trip to Ktima Georgiades at the village of Skarinou where they had new experiences as well as good fun with their peers and members of the Pastoral Team. It was lovely to watch the juniors picking olives

form the olive trees and then using the olive mill in the old traditional way. They also enjoyed the donkey farm while listening to the people there talking about the use of these animals by farmers in the past.

Based on our commit-ment to offer our stu-dents an all-rounded ed-ucation, more education-al, fun and bonding activ-ities are being planned to take place during the year. We are constantly trying to think of new, creative ways to enhance our students’ develop-ment and prepare them to face challenges with confidence, in upper

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around” Leo F. Buscaglia

All Rounded Education

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Halloween spirit

Year 7 PSHE Lesson: Raising awareness of the risks of using Steroids.

3J organized a Halloween Bake Sale. All proceeds bought gifts delivered to the Makarios Hos-pital in December.

Activities in the Classrooms or during school morning hours Year 1 GCSE Music Student, started their day with a solo performance using a classical guitar moving to piano then a violin.

1G presenting a group project with topic: Different cultures/ lifestyles, using all their senses. In the below the class taste buds visited India.

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2015/2016 Trips Organized

The below list of trips will be available for students this summer. Visits to countries beyond the Island provide stu-dents with numerous benefits in terms of developing their experiences both socially and culturally, enhancing lan-guage provision and appreciating other ways of life, along with the obvious sightseeing. The target price range is around €1200 - 1300. Trip organisers will provide further information in due course: French Trip For Years 6 & 7, Destination - France, Normandy or Strasbourg Trip organiser – Ms. Katia Solomidou Geography Trip For Year 4, Destination – Swiss Alps Trip organiser – Mr Jonathan Boyadjian, Important notice: This trip is part of the syllabus Spanish Trip For Year 5, Destination – Barcelona & Andalucia Trip organiser – Ms. Virginia Rengel Kefala, This trip is open to all students not just those taking Spanish Maths Trip For Year 4, Destination – Germany, Switzerland and France Trip organiser – Ms. Maryenda Stefanou English Trip For Year 3, Destination - London Trip organiser – Ms. Shura Economou RE Trip For Years 3,4 & 5, Destination – Belgrade Trip organiser – Mr Panayiotis Thoma, This trip is open to all students History Trip For Year 4, Destination London & Stratford-upon-Avon Trip organiser – Mr James Corkhill

Exploring Nature… Geography trips

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Visiting the A.G. Leventis Gallery

Our Art and Design 5th Form stu-dents were taken to the A.G. Le-ventis Gallery to see and take part in the "Come, Create, Engage Exhi-bition". It is a show initiated by the artist Pawel Althamer. The Draftsmen’s congress : Life Zone-Life Point is an ongoing pro-ject originally presented at the

7th Berlin Biennale in 2012 and then at various art centres around the world. Our 5th Formers really enjoyed them-self. Students that were involved were: Andrea Aradjioti, Ilaeira Agrotou, Melanie Athanasiou, Basak Elcil, Tanje Keles, Mehmet Sofi, Maya Stylianou,

Year 2 Citizenship Workshop, 5th - 6th December 2015

in excellent integration activities as well as a simulation activity where they had to place themselves in the position of asylum seekers. A very moving presentation was made by a Syrian Refugee who joined the group on Saturday evening, which was followed by a discussion.

On the 5th and 6th Decem-ber, a workshop was organized by the Year 2 Citizenship Teachers together with Vince Allan from Club Jubilee. The aim of the workshop was to give year 2 students an op-portunity, through fun and creative activities, to explore issues relating to their curricu-lum such as Friendship, Inclu-sion and Migration which fall under the topic area of "Identity and Diversity." The students had much fun and the opportunity to engage

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Afternoon Games

Afternoon Games

Timings:

Non-Physical Activity

All students need to attend games. Should any student not be able to engage in physical activity, the non-physical activity has been created so students can be educated about the importance of engaging in sports.

We have continued to develop and enrich the programme of activities that we would like to offer to our students this year, working with a number of spe-cialist coaches who have agreed to work with the PE Department. Following feedback from stu-dents, we decided to maintain the activities that were intro-duced last year, such as Martial Arts/Self –Defence, Greek/Cypriot Dancing, Yoga and Zumba. Our students have also requested more fitness classes and this year we will work with three additional coaches to pro-vide more options such as Body Combat, Functional Training and Body Balance. Of course, we will also maintain the “tried and tested” options of Basketball, Volleyball, Table Tennis, Bad-minton, Football, Softball, Ath-letics, Futsal, Hockey and Ten-nis.

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During an informal evening with new parents in September at the covered square opposite the canteen and later on in mid-October during the parents’ con-sultation afternoon, we had the opportunity to meet new parents. From the feedback we received we understand that study skills is an area students, especially those new in Year 1, need to develop .

On Friday, 25th September, at 7pm, the Modern Languages department organized an evening of song, poetry, dance celebrating the European Language Day.

It was a huge success with surprises and wonderful food!!

Language for all

New Parents Cocktail Evening Afternoon or Evening Events

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Just like every year, the school honors our Founder Frank Darvall Newham, with two different ceremonies: one for the Lower School and one for the Upper School. During the Upper School, our guest speak-er was: Mr. Constantinos Christofides, Rec-tor at the University of Cyprus.

Over 170 students were awarded for their academic excellence. Musical interludes included: Athina Stavrou—Violin, “1st Movement of Concertino op. 12” by Ferdi-nand Kuchler, Julia Jenkins-Song, “Let it be” by John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney, Marilena Antoniadou—Piano, “Danza de la moza donosa” by Alberto Ginastera and Alexandros Groutides—Guitar, “Oblivion” Improvisation.

Some information about Mr. Newham. Frank Darvall Newham was born in Leicestershire, England on the 6th March 1864. He gained a First Class degree in Theology at Cambridge University

and later, at the age of 36, came for the fist time to Cyprus. In 1901 he was appointed Inspector for Schools for the then Colonial Government and 6 years later, he became Chief Inspector, an office whose title subse-quently changed to Director of Educa-tion.

During his 1st year on the island, in 1900, he founded a school for boys. Initially there were just 13 boys but that school developed into what is now our wonderful School, The English School, with over 1122 boys and girls. He was Headmaster of the school for 36 years. In 1936 he hand-ed the school over to the Colonial Government, on condition that its essential character should be main-tained. He was a generous man who ensured that the school was open to pupils from all the communities and creeds of the island. It was Frank Newham who introduced football and hockey in Cyprus. He died in Kyrenia on his birthday in 1946 at the age of 82. His legacy, The English School, lives on.

Founder’s Day Afternoon or Evening Events

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Founder’s Day Games

Some Sport Highlights

Just like every year, the school honors our Founder, with Founder's Day Sports Event, nearly two hours filled with fun for both students and teachers. This year this took place on the 6th November 2015. The activities students and teachers engaged in were: Inter-house games: Junior and Senior Boys 7-a-Side Finals, Junior Girls Basketball Cup Final, Students Vs Staff Volleyball match, Body Combat and Body Balance. The results of the competition were as follows: Junior Boys 7-a-Side Football: N 11 - K 4 Senior Boys 7-a-Side Football: K1 - W 0 Junior Girls Basketball Cup: N 13 - K12 Volleyball Match: Students: 2 - Staff 1

Making us Proud!

Salakian Hockey Trophy

The Salakian Hockey Trophy between the English School and ESOBGA took place on Saturday, 5th December 2015. It was an amazing match leading to ES:1, ESOBGA: 5. Well done to all participants!!

Congratulations to our Year 5 student, Themis Haliou (5J) reaching Bahrain Junior Ten-nis Championships (26-31 October 2015).

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Some Sport Highlights

Pancyprian

Biathlon Competition

Well done to the English School Team for their 3rd Place Win.

Volleyball Success

Victory for our Senior Girls Volley ball Team, playing against The Fo-rum, on the 19th November 2015 won 2-0.

Still Making us Proud!! The ESOBGA football team.

More details about the matches from which the photos were taken at: http://www.philenews.com/el-gr/oikonomia-

epicheiriseis/156/252931/cablenet-stirizei-tin-

podosfairiki-omada-apofoiton-anglikis-scholis-esobga and at https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?stor

y_fbid=10205247929340997&id=1329538173&

pnref=story.

English School Vs ESOBGA The Events of the Day

On Friday, 20th November 2015, the Physical Education Department organized the English School vs ESOBGA Games. Students, Graduates, Staff and Parents took part in the Games.

Some Results

6-a-Side Hockey ES vs ESOBGA: 2-6 ES Vs ESOBGA Volley Ball Boys: 0-2 ES VS ESOBGA Volley Ball Girls: 2-0 ESOBGA Vs ES Basketball Results: 46-38 ESOBGA Vs ES Futsal Results: 3-7

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Cross Country Results

Some Sport Highlights

For more results visit: http://www.englishschool.ac.cy/eventsdetails/Cross_Country

New Staff “New Administration Staff in Admissions, Exams and Data

We are delighted to welcome to our school Ms. Elena Kazantzi-Gregoriou (left in the photo) and Ms. Christina Kkolou (right in the photo).

Ms. Kazantzi has taken up the role of Examinations and Assessment Coordinator and is located in Room 25. Ms. Kkolou has taken up the role of Data and Admissions Assis-tant and is located in the Main Office.

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Other Activities

Being Animal Lovers

The Animal Awareness Club offered dry food to "Aid Cyprus" from the money raised during their Christmas activity.

Nicosia Pop-Up Festival

On 6th December and the 18th December the School Band played festive tunes at the Nicosia Pop-Up Festival down-town.

“We Care We Help Club”

On Friday, 18th December 2015, the ‘We Care We help Club' were invited to represent our school at a Volunteerism ceremo-ny which was held at the Presidential Palace. This is the third time our club has been invited to participate in this ceremony and we feel honoured. We take this occasion to thank the school for all the support it's been showing the last three years and particularly our students for their hard work and enthusi-asm. The teachers in charge Andrie Constantinou, Niki Melanidou, Eva Polyviou

In the photo you will see the First Lady, Ms. Andrie Anastasiadou, Dr. Eva Poly-viou and Panayiotis Kyprianou (7J).

Talent Night 2015, Don't Believe Us, Watch Us! Lights, Camera, Action!! On Thursday November 26th and Friday November 27th our students mesmerised us with their talents.

Talent Night sneak preview "https://www.youtube.com/embed/sdC0wgqoaWc"

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Teddy Bear – Charity Walk

Other Activities

On Sunday, 15th November, The English School was one of the sponsors and also took part in the Teddy Bear Walk in Limassol. About 26 Children from Year 1 to 4 took part in the walk, raising a further EUR1226 which will go to Save the Children's Refugee Appeal. The organisers thanked our School and our students for our participation and generosity and praised our students for their efforts and behaviour. Speaking to students they said they had fun in participating and enjoyed the inter-action with their peers. A special thanks to Ms. Shura Economou (Head of the English Department) for her support and Enthusiasm, as well as the parents that joined the school in these efforts. Further, a Special thanks to Global Perspective Class for their inspiration and fervour. Also it was amazing to see how they looked after the younger children.

On the 7th of November, from 8am to 3pm, our Year 6 stu-dents, organized a charity car wash. The students have shown a lot of enthusiasm, dedication and coordination in planning this event and as you can see by the photos and video, they had a lot of fun despite the hard work! The students managed to collect EUR1,106.50. Proceeds col-lected from staff will be going to the family of George Michael while the rest of the proceeds will go to Europa Donna Cy-prus. A big thank you to the Year 6 students and the supporters of

Charity—Car Wash

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Other Activities

MEDIMUN Delegate training day On Saturday, 14th November, we hosted the training day for MEDIMUN delegates. Students came from across Cyprus to The English school where they were trained for the conference which will take place on February 5th -7th 2016.

MEDIMUN is a conference organised by English School Students. 2016 will be the 11th conference.

This year 28 schools will be taking part from across Cyprus, including many state schools. Over 400 delegates took part in the training day.

Students are learning about world affairs, the perspectives of other nations, gaining research skills, English language skills, developing public speaking and learning the art of compromise.

We Eat, We Taste, We Help!

On the 20th November 2015 a Bake Sale was organized by the “Drop by Drop” Club. Students sold muffins, biscuits and cakes that they have made by stu-dents in order to raise funds for the St. Barnabas School for the Blind. A special thank you to Panayiotis Thomas who has organised the Bake Sale with the help of students from years 2-7.

Irish Ambassador to Cyprus, H.E. Nicholas Twist This year’s student delegation to The Hague International Model Unit-ed Nations (THIMUN) conference in January 2016 will represent the Republic of Ireland. The team was delighted to host the Irish Ambassador to Cyprus, H.E. Nicholas Twist, for an informative session about Ireland’s foreign poli-cy and role in the UN on November 19, 2015.

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A short trip to Fiction and Back

Other Activities

By Kleopatra Olympiou

On the 7th of November, in the distant realm that is the English Centre, a group of about 30 students walked up the wooden stairs of the building, and with each creak of the steps another creative mind entered Room 52. They formed an alliance of students representing the English, Greek, Turkish and Modern Languages De-partment, in a unified defiant meeting against the sci-ences… Well, not really, but it is fair to say that the 30 crusaders found comfort in each other’s presence, and, admittedly, the presence of fresh sandwiches, juice and marble cake. Yet the crusaders were not distracted by the culinary appeal of this mystical ceremony. They stayed true to their purpose; they were there to write, in a creative writing workshop led by award-winning Cypriot poet and short story writer Nora Nadjarian. The workshop’s promising name, “Creative Writing: Unlocking Your Imagination”, did not disappoint the eager crusaders, as it focused on the writing of short stories, combining theory and writing advice with writ-ing prompts and exercises. The happily fed crusaders were able to play with lan-guage, crafting imaginary situations where a dinner date went horribly wrong, a heart was broken, a baby ap-peared out of nowhere and libraries became threats and shelters. Ranging from moving to humorous, our Lan-guage Defenders’ responses quickly warmed the hesita-tion of some participants away, creating a happy envi-ronment where all could participate in an interactive game of (metaphorical) literary table tennis and ideas bounced around the room in respectful turn-taking. Constrained by time, Ms Nadjarian was forced to end this game, closing the workshop with a few readings of her own work and of the work of other writers. As she uttered the final words of her poem ‘Ledras Street’, a tremor went through the room. Our crusaders put aside their armour and quietly left the room, re-entering life in their capacity as ordinary humans, this time with a somewhat subdued, discreet, internalised passion for defending languages. As they left, Ms Economou, Ms Efthymiou, Ms Karaviotou, Mr Uzuner and Ms Neo-cleous (of the Greek department) smiled. For this day, at least, languages and literature had prevailed.

Internal General Assembly EYP Club

On the 29th November 2015, in our School Hall from 08:30am to 13:30pm, the Internal General Assembly of the European Youth Parliament Club took place. It was a very productive morning. Congratulation to Ms. Virginia Rengel-Kefala (Coordinator) and Ms. Antonia Christou (Assistant Coordinator) and all the Student members of the EYP Club that took part.

Attending a Debate at the EU House On Friday, 04th December 2015, five of our students attend-ed the debate at the EU House with topic: “The new generation discusses the refugee crisis – veto to racism” These five students, represented our school impecca-bly. They did us proud by asking the MEP’s challenging questions regarding the topic of racism, the media and the refugee crisis. They were not always happy with the MEP’s response and continued to probe for answers to their questions!

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Other Activities

Jamaican BBQ

On Saturday, 21st November, the ES Leavers 2016 and ESPA co-hosted a Jamaican BBQ. Reggae music, broad smiles, palm trees, delicious food, Jamaican treasure hunts, playful photo-booths, sumo fights, mesmerizing lights- this year’s BBQ Night was inevitably a great success!

For more information about the night visit our website:

http://www.englishschool.ac.cy/eventsdetails/Jamaican-BBQ

Year 3 Classics Day On Friday, 11th December, Seven guest speakers were invited by the Greek Department to speak to our Year 3 stu-dents. They delivered lectures and workshops on various as-pects of the Ancient Greek World (Literature, Linguistics, Thea-tre, Music, etc.). The presentations began at 10:40 (period 4) and it concluded at 13:30.

Map Your Meal

Map your Meal, Photo Exhibition was on display from the 16th December to the 22nd December, on the Ground Floor of the Science Building.

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Other Activities

Center for Talented Youth Summer Camp The Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Anatolia College is the result of the stra-tegic partnership of three institutions with strong and long-lasting traditions in education and in service to society. The Stavros Nearchos Foundation (New York, USA and Athens, Greece), Anatolia College (Thessaloniki) and the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MA, USA) have joined forces in establishing a unique cen-ter for Greece, South Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The aim of CTY at Anatolia College is to identify and educate primary and secondary school students who possess special academic talents or skills, who stand out with their perfor-mance in and out of school or who share a common passion for learning and edu-cation above and beyond the confines of the school curriculum. An introductory program took place at our School on Sunday, December 6th from 10:30-15:30. Students of the ES Years 1-4 were invited and took part, to select one of the offered courses, full of exciting advanced material and of versatile teaching strategies, while parents attended a short (45 minutes approximately) information session at 10:30. Students found it fascinating as the photos portray.

Annual Blood Donation Blood Donation has been a traditional activity of the English School for more than 35 years. As the School encourages the students to be involved in community ser-vice in general, our students have been participating with great enthusiasm in this program, taking part in a very ambitious scheme which aims at covering all blood needs of Cyprus on a voluntary basis.

On Friday, 4th December 2015, the School organized the annual Blood Donation which took place in our Hall. It started at 8.30 a.m. and over 80 students and staff took part as donors.

Well done to the organizing committee and a thank you to the Medical team from the General Hospital

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Other Activities Our Year 1 group have been very busy in December month in raising money

or working on different initiatives to help those less fortunate than our-selves. On Monday, 30th November our 1M students had a Christmas Bake sale, raising EUR170.00. The week starting the 7th December our 1G students brought in blankets to be used by the babies in the Makarios III hospital and on the Friday 11th December our 1W and 1Y students held a very successful Christmas Bazaar raising EUR951.00. All proceeds were used to buy medi-cal equipment and very much needed bed linen for the pre-mature infant ward at the Makarios III Hospital. On the 18th December 2015 Year 1 groups went to the Makarios III Hospi-tal to deliver our gifts. It was truly an emotional, yet wonderful experi-ence. The students were allowed in groups of 10 to walk around the ward to see the little infants in their incubators. So many little babies being cared for, that will unfortunately will be away from home for Christmas. Juniors you have really made us proud! The love and care you all put into this initiative is truly amazing.

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving” Mother Teresa

The Spirit of Giving

3 Jade walked to Makarios Hospital this morning with their Form Teacher and Head of Year to take gifts with the money raised from their Halloween bake sale. They bought four TV monitors for the children’s wards at the hospital, at the hospitals request. They were very well behaved and wished the children in hospital a Merry Christmas and gave them small gifts. Well done 3 Jade!!

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Another Act of Love! Other Activities

Our 1 Black and 1 Jade students embarked on a project from the heart, called: “Giving with Love”. Trying to bring a little joy to the hearts of the children in the Makarios Hospital, they bought some gifts and became Santa’s little helpers. The smiles obtained were priceless. Small pray: That this festive season, we are all blessed with health, happiness and prosperity.

Wednesday, 17th December 2015, our choir and orchestra simply mesmerised us with the beautiful sounds of Christmas. Two performance were held, one at 6.00pm and the other at 8.00pm at our School Hall.

The 8.00pm performance tickets sold out on the second day of announcing the tickets were available, that is ap-proximately 300 people attended the show. In light of this, a second performance was organized whereby over 120 people attended.

Some of the reviews received on the morning of the 18th December were:

It was an amazing night!

It was enjoyable and relaxed evening

It was an outstanding performance!

Listening to the Senior Choir singing Acapella made me emotional.

As we all work the last moment, coming to this Christmas Concert really put me in the Christmas Spirit. We continued signing in the car on our way home!

The event was co-organized by ESPA and Parents.

A big thank you to all the Organisers, our Students: Junior and Senior Choir and our Orchestra, you brought Christmas to our hearts once again!

An Amazing Performance

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Better English for a Better Future

Experience has taught us a great deal: how to choose our teachers, how to create an ideal learning environment, and how to prepare our students for examinations - with excellent results. Creating the ideal environment Education is not only about books, tests and homework. It is about creating a motivating yet stress-free environment that will enhance the capacity to learn. Classes are held in the beautiful setting of the English School grounds. With a small number of students in each class, our teachers can introduce modern teaching tools and techniques that are both fun and effective..

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Some Upcoming Events January to March 2016

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